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[Loud Whispers]

Nah, we all know terrorists are Oldschool Runescape fundamentalists

[Reelya]

I have to reemphasize this bit for shits and giggles:

Video including the Team America speech about the blackhawk helicopters raining death on his goats was shown to congress to prove how tech-savvy Al Qaeda had become (so ... give us more money for this).

In evidence, they said:

    ... you can see where the games are set to psychologically condition you to go kill coalition forces... You can see how the entire campaign is carefully crafted to first evoke an emotion and then to evoke a response and to direct that response in the direction that they want.

    — Panel I of the Hearing of the House Select Intelligence Committee. Subject: Terrorist Use of the Internet for Communications

This is actually what they said while playing the kid's home movie that used movie audio clips to Congress.

while this is from the actual upload:

SonicJihad: A Day in the Life of a Resistance Fighter

Be sure to download it, it's my first so...Suggestionz are welcome.

EDIT, BTW, I just remembered something the said on ABC about this, they got a response in a following episode from the American government. When pointing out that the audio was from Team America, the Bush Administration response was along the lines of "terrorists don't respect intellectual property rights". So they'd actually have us believe Al Qaeda watched Team America and decided the "goats" speech was just what they needed for the next propaganda video. Like, wouldn't ya think that the fact that the entire video is in English and not Arabic would be a giveaway that it's not actually an Al Qaeda training tool?

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[wierd]

No no no. Alien Big Cat histrionics is totally the genre for Boomers of the liberal west coast.  They tend to be burnt out hippies that put hunks of epoxy and glitter everywhere for "spiritual healing", not the PRO NUKESTRIKE kind that live here in the central part of the US.

[Reelya]

A couple in Australia convicted after police found bestiality videos in a folder 'Do No View - Delete If We Die'. They had the device for some other unrelated reason. Kinda seems like the dumbest thing to call a folder that you don't want people looking in, if you're dumb enough to record something like that in the first place. It's like asking people to look in the folder. Call it basically anything else, the more boring the better.

On a youtube video recently a guy unboxed a mystery PC, and he found a folder called "porno" in the root directory. That folder then had 10-deep of cryptically named folders, and then actual porn images. Seems like the guy thought that having a lot of folders between the root and the pictures would prevent people finding them, but why then name the root folder "porno"? So this guy had the obfuscation idea down properly, but then goes and moves the whole thing into a folder called "porno" inexplicably.

I probably found the most straightforward way to store stuff on a Windows PC that you don't want people looking at, it's to make a vhdx file in Disk Management, which are normally used for virtual machines, you then mount that as a local drive, and put a Bitlocker password on it. I have this on an external USB drive and every time i reboot i have to mount it and put the password in. Pretty much guarantees nobody else can get my personal files from there if they broke in and stole my PC and stuff.

[Loud Whispers]

lmao that man just wanted to make a virtual labyrinth, he wanted people to make the deep dive

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[Reelya]

But that doesn't sound very convenient.

Is that an actual thing you can mount as a real-time drive? If not, then you need to compress or uncompress things as they are needed so you are much more likely to have the raw unprotected files just lying around too, making it less of a secure way of handling things.

The point with the bitlocker + vhdx thing on an external drive is that it's portable and if you reboot it's not mounted anymore so if someone takes your stuff they can't access it, while you can still use it as a normal way to store files in day to day use. Also the point here is that if you use bitlocker on the *whole* drive it's immediately obvious what that is, whereas a file on the drive they might not know what to do with.

[Naturegirl1999]

Hehe makes sense. Did you know western european far right tends to exploit fear of reappering wolves?




Isn't a winrar folder with a longass password super hard to bruteforce?

Do you mean wolves that reappear or wolves that reap souls? Both?

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[wierd]

No, just a concatenation of reap and pear.

[Rolan7]

Reinstalling windows 7 has been a trip.  Pretty sure I'm past at *least* 8 reboots installing updates, though a couple can be blamed on Nvidia's bloated nonsense driver "experience".

In earlier reboots neither Uplay or Nvidia could authenticate for some reason, but that may have been Windows Firewall's fault.  This time around it's Steam that claimed to be unable to contact the servers, but I was busy disabling Edge (the only thing that particular "update" had added).  Still, I tried to connect to Steam 3 times, and it kept insisting it couldn't.  Only for my laptop to happily mention that "Viric is no longer available for streaming" when I rebooted again.  So Steam WAS logged in, it just... didn't... know that...?

Oh goody it finally rebooted again, and this time hijacked my screen with a lovely message explaining that they'd dropped support.  Thanks Microsoft, this update process has taken literally hours, but good to know you're no longer offering updates.  fuuuuck offfffff

Also fun:  I tried to migrate my Firefox profile by just deleting the fresh profiles and copy-pasting my old one in.  Sure the new profile isn't named right, but surely it'll just open the profile selector dialog?
Nah, just says my profile seems broke and quits to desktop
okay uh...  I'll uninstall and reinstall...

same thing
...I'll uninstall, manually delete the directory from appdata because the uninstall failed to, reinstall, copy my profile back in, and manually edit the txt config file to use the new folder path

It doesn't exactly work, but it pops up the profile selector dialog!  Yay!  I finally select the correct profile and all is well.  not sure why it couldn't have done that several steps ago, woopee.

Meanwhile Steam still claims it can't contact the friend server, but I *am* online and can download games just fine, so whatevs I truly don't care.  I'm always invisible anyway.

This reinstall was largely because Far Cry 5 kept complaining about my video drivers being out of date, so I manually downloaded a new version of their Experience nonsense (because the already installed updater always failed with no more information than "can't do it").  But the installer didn't come with the most recent drivers, the update still don't work, and now I was getting system hangs and awful framerate whereas the games had worked just fine before.  Like it partially installed over itself or some shit.

whatever, it's finally working now, and my files are considerably more organized.
(speaking of, younger me once found a AO DOS adventure game on an abandonware site.  The "8 characters or less" folder name didn't betray the nature of the game, so eventually I started putting other stuff in there.  Security!  Plus the computer default-boots into a broken install I never bothered to remove- by the time the monitor spins up you can almost miss the selector prompt.  I am a master of obfuscation.)
(Beats the time my laptop was partially obscured by a quarter of the screen being a lovely rainbow darkness, and a couple keys - including one in my password - having failed.  Mmm, ascii-codes!)

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[Reelya]

As for Amazon's game Crucible, I watched some reviews and have a good idea what went so wrong.

Apparently the maps are huge, and that's huge according to people who play a lot of games. The maps are very pretty, but the problem is they made maps big enough to fit the entire 100 players of a round of PUBG, yet the largest mode in Crucible is merely 6 a side skirmishes or something, with strategic objectives spread out over the whole map to "utilize" the space, I guess. You have to trudge several minutes between objective points. And how did they fix that? Well they decided that wandering monsters harassing you in between the objective points that you actually care about would help to pass the time. Plus in addition to that they launched with three game-modes, all of which weren't balanced because that would break the other modes more, and which also split the queues for game match-ups, meaning there were long wait times in the game lobby and even once you're in the game it's a very stop and start thing with multiple minute waits between interesting stuff actually happening. Because nobody could give up their amazingly looking giant maps, apparently. The process clearly lacked any one person to step in and say "no, we're cutting that".

So there really weren't any "adults" in the room making hard decisions. Nobody could let go of their precious giant maps, despite those being absolutely the wrong thing in terms of good design decisions (this is not rocket science, maps being too big for multiplayer is a known/solved problem), nobody was telling them the concept art looked like balls and was too complicated and they needed a consistent and stripped-down aesthetic either, and nobody was saying to just pick one game mode and make that one work properly and cut the other two out (they cut them after the launch failed). So, bigger and more elaborate maps, bigger and more elaborate guns, and this despite their AWS-backed engine clearly not being up to the job of hosting a 100-player battle royale game that would justify such a large map, or they would have launched with a mass melee mode as well, for sure.